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My Home in Norfolk Virginia 8-6-2012


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wow wow wow the band was on fire. 4 1/2 hours. One drummer (due to a Blessed Event) and Lisa on a few songs,"Jerry" on the right--guess the show:

Bertha ("no bad show ever started with Bertha" says Brother Bill)

Me & my uncle

Deal

Black throated wind

You Win Again

Big River

Bird Song

Mexacali Blues

Stella Blue

Jack Straw

Railroad Blues

Playing in the band

set 2:

Morning Dew

greatest story ever told

He's Gone

El Paso (perfectly)

Don't ease me in

Dark star/[jam I don't know]/Dark star

space [?]

broke down palace

Promised Land

Ramblin on Rose

Not fade/GDTRFB/good night/not fade

Encore:

1 more saturday night

filler rockin' pneumonia boogie woogie flu featuring the kazoo virtuoso Lisa

Guess the show.

Trivia: you win again was last played about 10 days later

PS Rob: I wasn't giving you a hard time before the show, just funning ya. Love having you all at the Norva and can't wait until you come back!

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First of all Aaron, if its magic you want to hear, then you should have come out for this show.

I thought this was the best show of the tour and the band was on fire. Jeff was simply tearing it up and sang with so much emotion. koritz looked like he was having so much fun rocking out. there was one song in the first set where he just let loose and the whole band stormed along behind him. can't remember the exact song at the moment. Kevin was dropping some really sweet beats and Lisa was amazing as always. Lisa only sang for some songs and I loved that she was dancing as hard as I was on the side of the stage when she wasn't singing. barraco was beautifully pounding away on those keys and really took my breath away at certain points. eaton really looked like he was in his groove and had some really amazing moments with Jeff. I chuckled at the "I hope we don't screw it up" comment before el paso, but knew in my heart that there were going to be no missed lines :)

the whole first set was just phenomenal and mind blowing. you win again, bird song, STELLA, jack straw, and railroad blues were by far my favorites of the first set. Stella was so beautiful and moving that even all of the drunk talkers stopped to pay their respects to the music. the rest was rip roaring fun dancing music til I was just about as soaked as a chuckvegas, that mythical creature from the west.

the second set found us moved from the second row all the way up to the balcony where I had enough space to dance like the flailing fool I am. :) Jeff provided us with a glorious example of morning dew that could have brought tears to everyone's eyes. greatest story lifted us up and got us rockin again. el paso had no missed lines. The dark star and jam was a treat and very enjoyable. brokedown was beautiful and brought back some very special memories for me. the nfa sandwich was hot and a great way to end the second set. the one more Saturday night was okay.. seemed a little short but ill leave that up to someone else to review.

all in all, if you add up the show, music, venue, crowd, etc I think this was one of my favorite shows in a while. the band was just on fire and I think mattson just keeps getting better and better. it was one of my most enjoyable experience at the norva. the norva at times can have a very 9:30 club feel to it. it wasn't over packed and the crowd was super nice and down to groove all night. staff was great too. it seems like the band always knocks it it if the park at this venue.

I'm glad the band and crew have a night off to relax, but after last night I'm eager to get back to the music. see you all at the beach!!!

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DSO smokes the Norva every time...it must be something with that green room......some years ago, James, Herdy and myself found ourselves in that green room and laughed as hard as I can remember...memories..

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The last of my four nights in the southeast and then I drove to Columbia SC to go through the attics of my life on a search for what still has meaning.... I just went on early 70s Grateful Dead tour for a week and the nostalgia on every level though I was born in 84 has moved my soul so thouroughly I am feeling a little light headed and giddy still sitting in my old work place that I left those years ago to travel down these many roads with you all. It takes all types and I am just so tickled to get to recieve these musical transmissions and then send then continue the good vibrations with our geeky little chats here on the forums. Marvelous.

OK OK..... so I went in really early cause it was my last night (instead of selling all the cool clothing and accessories I made with my roomie) and assumed position in the front so I could keep my eyes peeled for familiar faces in this VA area I am from. At a certain point I sat down up there and very quickly security came and told me I could not sit there. I argued kindly because I was so shocked and confused but then stood and it was quite an amusing way to start the night.

Lots of people said it was their favorite show and when I look at them all on paper I would think it was my favorite as well because that's the night they played the "great ones" that really get you going (and they DID!!! holy jeese!) but I thought the musical texturing was more varied in pattern at the 74 black mountain show and that the elective black mountain show showed the band really having some of the most fun ever with the crowd, so they take the cake for me. The wilmington show was also great and had highlights like hard to handle that I am still tingling from and the band really kept the crowd enthralled but the beach vibe is more ritzy than the mtn vibe and I personally prefer the laid back NC mountains for shows to about ANYWHERE on the planet. some of the first mountains ever formed on the planet, those are. trippy. lol.

anyways, the Norva show was inside and the drunk talkers were really really bad (they were at wilmington as well) every now and then but the band swooped in and grabbed them by the balls and absolutely enthralled them into the magic from the very first song.

I giggled when Deal came on since I was a bird brain and spaced writing that instead of Loser on my set list the night before (I DO know the difference, okay, it's been a long strange trip) and the power behind black throated was really swooning. you win again got us all into the same groove just to be taken down that big river and lost in the raw growing energy of the night. bird song was especially uplifting and melodic AND powerfully thrilling then Mexicali made us all giggle and shake it off in electric joy.

stella jack straw made me realize I was in the midst of a show I'd often listened too but I couldn't put my finger on it during the show. very special two songs together for me and placed in such a fun manner in the end of the first set. we all had RR blues together and the PLAYIN was SWEEEEEEEEEEET! passed a truck that said "DAYBREAKER" really big earlier in the day and knew I'd get this strung out monster jam :)

Morning Dew to open with the gset and he's gone right after sent us to new realms of understaning in our feet because the band was having their way with us (again!) Jeff does such a beautiful job with these ballads, putting so much emotion into it. Meanwhile Eaton put on quite the show throughout the night, even coming to the front a bit when the sound was getting really good to share the fun of playing it with us I just really adore the way gset sounded this night.

To make it all the way through Dark Star blowing our minds in and up and out to land us in brokedown palace moved me deeply. I needed that so badly and in the midsts of it nearly melted from the intensity of the sound waves rolling over me.

and THEN we get PL and RR Rose!!!!!!!! YES YES YES exactly I knew this show and was really annoyed at myself at this point for not remembering the date or venue I need to pay more attention but good lordy they just wailed our brains in and it was such a great way to start the nightly wrap up brain-back-almost-in-place segments of the NFA gdtrfb sandwhich that did its job just right and filled our bellies with those tasty jams that connect it all just right.

one more (monday) night I'd been saying all day.... oh yes it was just like a saturday packed and lost in musical heaven. we all giggled and danced harder when the kazoo came out and I was so happy to leave that as the last song until we meet you all at the jubillee.

thank you for such a great run of shows now that i've left my home in norfolk va I've ca on my mind.... swing down sweet chariot!

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